Longboat Key Letters to the Editor

It’s time silent majority

quits being silent

Thanks for deciding not to be politically correct when being politically correct is the new socially acceptable trend.

Thanks for not writing about eating watermelon at the local park while watching fireworks or boating in the bay on another holiday weekend.  

It’s not that those things don’t have a place or importance in our lives, but we need leaders and people of influence to help us get our priorities back in order before this country finds itself sliding further into an irreversible decline — without very serious implications.

This letter is not about issues, but more about attitudes of ignorance and denial versus acceptance of responsibility regarding the issues that will ultimately keep us a great nation or lead us further into servitude to the professional politicians and global elite crowd. 

That crowd desires greater control and less independence of the people and by the people.

Continue writing about things that make people think about what we want the future to look like and don’t give in to those who would try to lead us in the current paths of social popularity. 

It’s time the silent majority quits being so silent.

JERRY FLEMING

LONGBOAT KEY

Underground utilities assessments painful for many

To the Town Commissioners:

I just received my notice of the special assessment to fund neighborhood underground utilities.

In my opinion, the town commissioners have treated the property owners on the side streets unfairly in regards to the EBU special assessment.

If the people who voted for underground utilities had their taxes go up 20% as mine will, they might not have voted for it.

I have been here since 1975, when I had our house built. Many storms have come and gone. Never have I seen power lines or poles across the roads. Power might go out for one or two days max.

Whose idea was it to spend $50 million to go underground? When will it end? 

$50 million for underground, $10 million to renourish 200,000 yards of sand at the south end of the island at a cost of $50-plus a yard, 5 million to renourish the north end of sand. Next a consultant will be hired to tell us that our sewers are 40 years old and need to be replaced at X-million dollars.

I think the commission should listen to all of the people, not just a select few. For some, money is not a problem — that's why Longboat has become for millionaires only.

My pension has eroded over the years because of endless spending on projects — some necessary, many not.

Mel Schwartz

Longboat Key